[PRCo] Re: Eldora Park updates

[Schneider Fred]

Thanks Rich,

for including Tom's memoirs on your website.

One of the things I'm finding that people visiting trolley museums do  
not fathom is life in towns.   Our visitors come from suburbs in  
automobiles.   Living in cities and shopping in stores that fronted  
on streets is very much an alien concept today, just the same a money  
containers riding through the store on ropes and pulleys or in  
pneumatic tubes to the cashier's office.   I think if I ever get a  
chance to run 1138 on an Easter Sunday, I think I'll be tempted to  
roll up 66 Wilkensburg via Forbes.  Why, because that weekday only  
rush hour route did run on All Saints Day and on Easter just to haul  
the mourners to Homewood Cemetery to put flowers on the graves of the  
departed, another thing we've forgotten about urban life.

On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Rich Rockwell wrote:

>> I updated my web site (http://eldorapark.com) with historical  
>> information
>> about Eldora Park collected from newspapers from the early  
>> 1900's.  There
>> are three timelines on the left menu at the link below - Historical
>> developments, Events and outings, and Advertisements.
>> http://eldorapark.com/timelinedevelopment.htm
>>
>> Some highlights.
>>
>> Did you know that Carrie Nation, and Booker T. Washington spoke at  
>> Eldora
>> park in the second year of its existence and that Mother Jones  
>> spoke there
>> in 1913?  And that Carrie Nation took the streetcar from Eldora  
>> Park to
>> "Pittsburg" after her speech?
>>
>> I was sad to learn of the death of fellow PRCo list member, Tom  
>> Phillip's
>> a few months ago, but was glad he had sent me reminiscences of his  
>> youth
>> last year about riding the street car from Lock 4 to Charleroi  
>> when he was
>> a child.  I cherish his contribution and am honored to have it  
>> preserved
>> on my web site.
>>
>> http://eldorapark.com/Charleroi_Memories_PTM_%204-20-02.htm
>>
>> Rich
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